Santo remedio

No se puede creer. La American Cancer Society anuncia que en lugar de usar su presupuesto para hacer publicidad contra el cigarrillo o a favor de las mamografías, ahora lo va a utilizar para hacer lobby por la creación de un sistema de salud socializado en EEUU.

Tal vez llegaron a la conclusión de que necesitan más pacientes y muertes de cáncer para sobrevivir como organización:

For all its faults and all the criticism that it has received, the United States' free-market health-care system has made America the place you want to be if you have a serious illness.

Cancer patients understand this. The overall five-year survival rate for all types of cancer for men in America is 66.3 percent, and 62.9 percent for women, the best outcome in the world.

We shouldn't be surprised. The one common characteristic of all national health-care systems is that they ration care.

Sometimes they ration it explicitly, denying certain types of treatment altogether. More often, they ration more indirectly - imposing global budgets or other cost constraints that limit the availability of high-tech medical equipment or imposing long waits on patients seeking treatment.

In the United States, there are no such government-set limits, meaning that the most advanced treatment options are far more available. This translates directly into saved lives.